On 4/15/05, Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I recently joined the digital revolution by purchasing a *ist-Ds. Been > busy, but I finally had time to pop over to the McKinley Park rose garden to > try it out with my A*200 F4 Macro. > > Wow. What a great combination! The *ist-Ds yields more working distance > than with a full-frame film camera. The limited DOF makes it easy to take > care of busy backgrounds, too. I'm no great shakes as an artist, but here > are some examples of what this combination can do: > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/CalPoppy01.jpg > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/CalPoppy02.jpg > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/LongBud01.jpg > > Here's a 100% crop of the last one to show the achievable sharpness: > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/LongBud01Crop.jpg > > Finally, here is the center of a California Poppy taken at a macro ratio of > about 1.2 to 1: > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/CalPoppy03.jpg > > As always, comments and suggestions for improvement most welcome.
I think I'm more or less on top of current PAW's and PESO's, so now I can start to look at some older ones from last weekend when I was away, and even the weekend before when I took my little vacation to Nova Scotia. Anyway, Mark, they're lovely shots, but on my monitor the colours seem a bit muted. Other than that, I really like these. Nice to see you're having fun with the new camera! <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
